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Joseph Kelsey - 5th RM (Independent) Armoured Support Battery
1st January 2019 Key Military (Originally published in Britain At War) D-Day veteran Joseph Kelsey talks to Melody Foreman about the...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 25
- 21 min
48 Royal Marine Commando - July 1944 - Sallenelles
Occupation of Sallenelles X Troop, under the command of Capt Linnell, led the commandos into the area and found Sallenelles, as expected,...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 23
- 3 min
The Last Man Standing, the story of Dennis Donovan, 48 Royal Marine Commando Juno Beach
The Story of Dennis Donovan, the last man standing, 48 Royal Marine Commando. A Royal Marines History Podcast Dennis was born on the 3rd...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 29
- 2 min
RM Band - Repatriation of POWs to Argentina
Canberra now acting returned to San Carlos for a third time to pick up 5,500 POWs of the 11,845 Argentine POWs and sailed for Puerto...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 29
- 5 min
The Battle for the Falklands - 40 Years On (Pt 2; June 1982)
3 Commando Brigade forward base established at Teal Inlet 1st June 1982 In preparation for major engagements, 42, 45 Commandos and 3 Para...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 29
- 3 min
Hunting the Exocet
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Europe and Gibraltar Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: June 1982 The French AM 39...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 19
- 1 min
Operation KeyHole
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Thule Island Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 19 - 20 June 1982 After the...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 13
- 2 min
Scouts HELARM - Bunker Busting
Unit/ Formation: RM Airmen Location: Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 14 June 1982 During the...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 12
- 4 min
Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge, & Sapper Hill
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: Mount Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 13–14...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 12
- 3 min
Capitulation of Louisbourg
As soon as it was determined to make an attack on Louisbourg, Commodore Warren was directed to proceed to Canso from the Leeward Islands,...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6
- 1 min
D DAY Royal Marines
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 6 June 1944 Over 17,500 RM took part in...
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Si Biggs
- Mar 14
- 6 min
Cpl George Tandy - Gold Beach - 'The Human Rudder'
Corporal George Ernest Tandy Ch. X 110723 was 19 years old when as a crewman on LCA 786 he swung down from the davits of Landing Ship...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
Disarming Russian Bolsheviks at Vladivostok - Preparing an Armoured Train
HMS Suffolk Lat 43.1, Long 131.88 On the 9th April 1918 the cruiser HMS Suffolk landed a Marine Detachment to act as Consular Guard at...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Captain Lewis ST Halliday - Victoria Cross - 24th June 1900 – China
Halliday was 30 years old, and a captain in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, during the Boxer Rebellion in China when the following deed...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 20, 2021
- 1 min
Capture of St. Christopher's
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: St Christopher (St Kitts) Period/ Conflict: Year: 1690 Date/s: Wednesday 21st June 1690 The...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 17, 2021
- 2 min
Occupation of Dinghai harbour
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: China Period/ Conflict: Opium Wars Year: 1840 Date/s: June 1840 In late June 1840 the first part...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 16, 2021
- 1 min
Battle of Sinzheim
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: France Period/ Conflict: The Franco Dutch War Year: 1674 Date/s: Saturday 16th June 1674 ...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 10, 2021
- 4 min
Battle for the Falklands - The Battle for Two Sisters - 45 Cdo RM - 11/12 June 1982
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: The Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 11/ 12 June 1982 45...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
Battle for the Falklands - The Battle for Mount Harriet - 42 Cdo RM - 11/12 June 1982
Unit/ Formation: 42 Cdo RM Location: The Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 11 - 12 June 1982...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 9, 2021
- 1 min
The Preobrazhensky March
10th June 1964, prompted by the Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, the Royal Marines adopted the Preobrazhensky March in the...
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